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So I'm going to be investigating this company called Mobile Campus for my school. Essentially, they have an infrastructure that you can opt-in to receive SMS messages on your phone about various things. Also, it's driven by ads that get texted to students.

http://mobilecampus.com/

can you guys help me poke some holes in this service? It's just not rubbing me the right way.

Martel

seems pretty straightforward to me... you sign up for the service, get SMS spam, and maybe a few useful pieces of information.

in my opinion it would be pretty useless. you couldn't use it for official announcements unless the school wanted to pay to do so, and even then it would only go to people who had signed up for the advertisements.

I don't really understand the perceived benefit to students.

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Cynthetiq

mmmm spam on the go...

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asudevil83

not to mention that it wastes text messages if you are prepaying for a couple hundred a month. for those with unlimited, its just worthless spam.

wolf

So you can get SMS messages from the college letting you know important info. This stuff is available via intranet/internal email. Sounds like little bits of info + tons of spam = worthless. Math major not needed.

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